Abstract
This paper describes a new online lexical resource and interactive tool for Israeli Sign Language, ISL-LEX v.1. The dataset contains 961 non-compound ISL signs with the following information: subjective frequency ratings from native signers, iconicity ratings from native and non-native signers (presented separately), and phonological properties in six domains. The selection of signs was also designed to reflect a broad distinction between those signs acquired early in childhood and those acquired later. ISL-LEX is an online interface built using the SIGN-LEX visualization (Caselli et al. 2022), and is intended for use by researchers, educators, and students. It is therefore offered in two text-based versions, English and Hebrew, with video instructions in ISL.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages |
| Subtitle of host publication | Multilingual Sign Language Resources, sign-lang 2022 - held in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022 - Proceedings |
| Editors | Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder |
| Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
| Pages | 148-153 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9791095546863 |
| State | Published - 2022 |
| Event | 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, sign-lang 2022 - Marseille, France Duration: 20 Jun 2022 → 25 Jun 2022 |
Publication series
| Name | 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, sign-lang 2022 - held in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022 - Proceedings |
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Conference
| Conference | 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, sign-lang 2022 |
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| Country/Territory | France |
| City | Marseille |
| Period | 20/06/22 → 25/06/22 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0.
Funding
Funding for the content of ISL-LEX was supported by an Israeli Science Foundation grant to Rama Novogrodsky (ISF grant No. 1068/16; the Bimodal Bilingualism project) and a European Research Council (ERC) grant to Wendy Sandler, under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme, grant agreement No. 340140 (Grammar of the Body project). Additional support for the website and dissemination was supported by an ISF grant to Rose Stamp (ISF grant No. 2757/20; ISL Corpus project) and an internal grant from the Data Sciences Institute (DSI). The original work on the SIGN-LEX platform (initially for ASL-LEX v.1, v.2) was supported by the grants from National Institutes of Health DC010997 to Karen Emmorey and San Diego State University, a Tufts University Faculty Research Award to Ariel Cohen-Goldberg, and a Tufts University Graduate Research Award to Naomi Caselli. Additional awards include: (i) NSF Award BCS-1918556 to Zed Sevcikova Sehyr and Karen Emmorey; (ii) NSF Awards BCS-1625954 to Karen Emmorey; (iii) NSF Awards BCS-1625793 and BCS-1918252 to Naomi Caselli; and (iv) NSF Awards BCS-1625761 and BCS-1918261 to Ariel Cohen-Goldberg. Funding for the content of ISL-LEX was supported by an Israeli Science Foundation grant to Rama Novogrodsky (ISF grant No. 1068/16; the Bimodal Bilingualism project) and a European Research Council (ERC) grant to Wendy Sandler, under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme, grant agreement No. 340140 (Grammar of the Body project). Additional support for the website and dissemination was supported by an ISF grant to Rose Stamp (ISF grant No. 2757/20; ISL Corpus project) and an internal grant from the Data Sciences Institute (DSI). The original work on the SIGN-LEX platform (initially for ASL-LEX v.1, v.2) was supported by the grants from National Institutes of Health DC010997 to Karen Emmorey and San Diego State University, a Tufts University Faculty Research Award to Ariel Cohen-Goldberg, and a Tufts University Graduate Research Award to Naomi Caselli. Additional awards include: (i) NSF Award BCS-1918556 to Zed Sevcikova Sehyr and Karen Emmorey; (ii) NSF Awards BCS-1625954 to Karen Emmorey; (iii) NSF Awards BCS-1625793 and BCS-1918252 to Naomi Caselli; and (iv) NSF Awards BCS-1625761 and BCS-1918261 to Ariel Cohen-Goldberg. 5.2 Videos of Signs The videos of signs in the ISL-LEX interface are stored in Vimeo and connected with links to the interface. These videos are the same ones used for the phonological coding and for obtaining the frequency and iconicity ratings. Most of the videos, 798 out of 961, originate from the IADPI video dictionary of ISL just mentioned, while the other 163 videos were filmed at the University of Haifa for the last author’s research project on ISL-Hebrew bimodal bilingualism in Israeli children (the ‘BIBI’ project, funded by the Israeli Science Foundation Grant No. 1068/16).
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Data Sciences Institute | |
| Rose Stamp | 2757/20 |
| National Science Foundation | BCS-1918252, BCS-1625954, BCS-1918261, BCS-1918556, BCS-1625793, BCS-1625761 |
| National Institutes of Health | DC010997 |
| Tufts University | |
| European Commission | |
| Israel Science Foundation | 1068/16 |
| Seventh Framework Programme | 340140 |
| University of Haifa |
Keywords
- ISL
- ISL-LEX
- Israeli Sign Language
- SIGN-LEX
- lexical database
- lexical network
- lexicon
- phonological coding